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Virginia Metzler Family Charitable Found Ation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$138k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$138k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0178% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$21kHealth$15kEducation$15kFood & Nutrition$10kHousing & Shelter$5kReligion$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kAnimals$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$138,000
Median grant
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States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHEDULE$138,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $7k → 6%PLAID HOUSE: $3k → 4%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NEWARK: $3k → 16%COMMUNITY HOPE: $2k → 4%CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $1k → 4%CHARITY WATER: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
3
Virtua Medical Group Pa

The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…

Health
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Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
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Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
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Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
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Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
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Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
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Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
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The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
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Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstone Family Programs and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SCHEDULE — $759,000 · OtherSCHEDULE+10 more — $32,500 · OtherMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $7,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK — $3,000 · Human ServicesPLAID HOUSE INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Hope Inc — $2,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS — $1,000 · Human ServicesTRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $4,000 · EducationSAGE ELDERCARE — $3,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $1,500 · EducationLASELL UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · EducationCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $7,000 · Food & NutritionINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC — $2,000 · Food & NutritionThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $3,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $3,000 · HealthNATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION — $3,000 · Public BenefitFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $1,000 · International
Other$791,500Human Services$19,000Education$9,500Food & Nutrition$9,000Health$6,000Public Benefit$3,000International$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCDIOCESE OF NEWARK — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAID HOUSE INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAGE ELDERCARE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Hope Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLASELL UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Investors Foundation …The Hyde and Watson F…Healey Family Foundat…Fm Kirby Foundation I…Ej Grassmann TrustBristol-Myers Squibb …The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Charities Aid Foundat…Network for Good
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Investors Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Healey Family Foundation · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · Ej Grassmann Trust · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Virginia Metzler Family Charitable Found Ation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Community Hope Inc — 41% of income from government
  • Plaid House Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Homeless Solutions Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Lasell University — 4% of income from government
  • Cornerstone Family Programs — 3% of income from government
  • Catholic Charities of the Arcdiocese of Newark — 1% of income from government
  • Sage Eldercare — 1% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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